THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 23, 2024 AT 5:52 PM
Paul Plante says:
So, think about this, people, as we consider the distinct possibility that Joe Biden’s entire SOTU performance, from the moment he came on stage as it were, to the rousing strains of “HAIL TO THE CHIEF,” which is what Joe Biden is in America, anyway, was scripted and directed not by human agency, but by AI, which everybody today who knows anything about anything knows is smarter that any human and knows way far more than a human could know in 20 or 30 lifetimes, how on March 7, 2024, when a visibly angry Joe Biden imperiously walked into the House Chamber of the U.S. Capital. where he is being impeached by his social and political inferiors, belligerent Joe, clearly looking for a fight, striding in as the conquering hero as if he were accoutered in Royal Purple with a golden torc around his bull neck, silver and gold arm rings adorning his massive arms, and a diadem around his brow, in a very surly mood, indeed, which captured the moment instantaneously and made the show all Joe Biden, for not only the people of America to see, but also the people and leaders of every dictatorship out there, and especially Putin of Russia, Xi of China, the dude in North Korea with the wild haircut, and the Houthis, who are using Joe Biden’s navy boats for target practice, that Joe Biden is the MAN THAT AM, somebody not to **** with if they know what’s good for them, a message as well for the Republicans as Joe tossed a copy to the speaker of the house as if tossing table scraps to a dog, telling him, “Your bedtime reading,” how all these many important separate and disparate little details, like Joe Biden’s all-important demeanor, that make or break a theatrical production, as someone with experience in the genre like Wayne Creed could well tell us, how difficult it is the make a theatrical production happen so seamlessly and flawlessly as this one did, that it does indeed smack of the first State of the Union address in America having been prepared by AI, and not human agency.
And what were the results of the experiment?
Let’s check the headlines from that evening and the following day to see:
AP News: Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump …
Spectrum News NY1: Biden lays out agenda in fiery State of the Union speech
U.S. News & World Report: Fiery Biden Takes on Trump in State of the Union Address
Reuters: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery State of the …
France 24: Biden attacks Trump, defends democracy in fiery State of …
The Hill: Biden’s fiery State of the Union shows he’s miles ahead of ‘ …
CNBC: Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery …
BBC: Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech
Washington Post: Biden delivers State of the Union with fiery political tone
ABC News: 7 takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union – ABC News
NBC News: Biden turns the State of the Union into a fiery campaign …
USA Today: Takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union
The New York Times: Biden Takes His Fiery State of the Union Pitch on the Road
Vanity Fair: Joe Biden Didn’t Mince Words for Republicans in Fiery …
CBS News: Biden hits campaign trail after fiery State of the Union address
YouTube · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
CBS News: California Republicans respond to Biden’s fiery State of the …
Le Monde.fr: Biden attacks Trump and warns US democracy at risk in …
NBC News: ‘Wake up’: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union
France 24: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery … – France 24
NBC4 Washington: State of the Union 2024: Biden delivers fiery …
KQED: 6 Key Takeaways From Biden’s Fiery State of the Union …
Washington Post: Biden campaigns in Pa. following feisty State of the Union …
FOX 2 Detroit: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union speech – FOX 2 Detroit
The Independent Record: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
The Bismarck Tribune: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
Financial Times: Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump on ‘democracy and …: Mar 7, 2024 — Joe Biden vowed to fight for “democracy and freedom” in the US and around the world in a fiery, unabashedly political speech to Congress in …
Facebook · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
Lincoln Journal Star: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
U.S. News & World Report: Biden’s Fiery State of the Union
FOX 11 Los Angeles: Biden delivers fiery SOTU address – FOX 11 Los Angeles
The Bay State Banner: President Biden lights up the chamber in fiery State of …
WFMJ.com: Biden delivers fiery state of the union
Albany Democrat-Herald: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
NJ Spotlight News: Biden takes on his ‘predecessor’ in fiery State of the Union …
So isn’t it interesting how universal, except a few instances where “feisty” was used instead, the use of the word “fiery” (emotional or easily made angry: as in “He’s known for his fiery temper”) was in all those headlines, as if coordinated.
And what else is interesting is the fact that none of those publications bothered to call out Joe for totally perverting and degrading what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” which serves as clear evidence in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service made patently clear, that the whole concept of the SOTU has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the people of the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7, 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
And the main-stream and legacy media DID NOT care!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 26, 2024 AT 10:41 AM
Paul Plante says:
Now, let’s face it, people, as we go further and further into the SILLY SEASON leading up to the November presidential election, we are confronted with a serious problem as free citizens of the United States of America who care about the QUALITY of our national government, that it is not a corrupt, profligate, scandal-ridden, incompetent, inept, untrustworthy national disgrace, or an international laughing stock on the world stage in this day and age of American DICTATOR and LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Biden ever to achieve such fame and glory in the entire history of the Bidens, is that as a pathological liar, Joe is going to keep lying, telling the same lies over and over, no matter how many times Joe’s lies get debunked, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, nor can we depend on the media, outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, to say boo about it, or to attempt to fact-check Joe, whose pathological lying the main-stream and legacy media simply accept as part of Joe Biden’s character or personal make-up.
Case in point is Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU where Joe came out with the following, to wit:
Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.
And, by the way, I understand corporations.
I come from a state that has more corporations invested than every one of your states in the state — the United States combined.
And I represented it for 36 years.
I’m not anti-corporation.
But I grew up in a home where trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table.
That’s why I’m determined to turn things around so the middle class does well.
When they do well, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very well.
We all do well.
end quotes
Trickle-down economics didn’t put much on Joe’s dad’s kitchen table?
What whiney bull**** that is!
And it is a patently ridiculous statement, as well, given that Joe was born on November 20, 1942, when DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, and there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
Then, Frank Roosevelt died in office so that on April 12, 1945, DEMOCRAT Harry S. “The buck Stops Here” Truman became president, and was president until 1953, and still there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
As to Joe’s statement about growing up in a home where NON-EXISTENT trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table, if we go to Joe’s own published bio on Wikipedia, this is what we find concerning Joe’s father, to wit:
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
end quote
Joe's father was a lousy businessman or money manager and a poor provider which is why little Joey grew up in a home without much on the table, and when poor, starving little Joey was seven years old, it was 1949 and DEMOCRAT Truman was president, so really, people, who does Joe Biden think he is kidding here with his speech on March 7, 2024 which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better.
So, people, think about it, with that bull**** spew about trickle-down, does Joe Biden think we all are unable to grasp reality because he and everyone around him are unable to grasp reality, which thought takes us back to a Newsweek article titled “Joe Biden Airs Thanksgiving Ad To Try To Boost Floundering Campaign” by Giulia Carbonaro on 24 November 2023, where we had the same BIDEN BULL**** that we were subjected to on March 7, 2024 flowing quite freely, to wit:
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign will air a television ad during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday as the president tries to boost support in his bid for re-election, which appears to be dwindling.
Recent polls by The New York Times and Siena College have shown that Biden is losing ground to Donald Trump in five critical states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
That means that the embattled former president — currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a huge margin — is ahead in five out of six key battleground states, where voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was leading only in Washington, where he had an advantage of two percentage points.
The president and Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the one-minute commercial will air during the Lions-Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, in one of those swing states where Biden is trailing Trump, Michigan.
According to the New York Times/Siena poll, Trump would win the state by five percentage points.
The ad, titled “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s Scranton roots and underlines the Democratic president’s understanding of the struggles of middle class Americans, as reported by The Detroit News.
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad says, adding that the middle-class town “has never left him.”
“He knows what life is like for working people and knows middle class life is too expensive right now.”
“For Joe Biden it’s about restoring the sense of security working people deserve — that simple promise, that peace of mind.”
“He’s determined to get it back, because of where he’s from and who he is,” the narrator says in the ad that will show at the Thursday game.
end quotes
“BIDENFLATION JOE” Biden is going to restore the sense of security working people deserve and Joe is determined to get it back, because of where Joe’s from and who Joe is?
Joe Biden a middle-class kid in a middle-class town and the middle-class town has never left him?
Joe Biden’s Scranton roots?
Joe Biden understands the struggles of middle class Americans?
What rot!
And Joe Biden knows what life is like for working people?
How so, people, when there is no evidence that Joe Biden ever worked an honest hour at an honest job in his entire lifetime?
As to Joe’s claims of understanding the middle class, if we go back to Joe’s bio, this is what we are confronted with, to wit:
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.
end quote
Ah, yes, people, Archmere Academy where tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is $32,400.
Good old “middle class” Joe, alright!
As to the term “trickle down economics,” according to Wikipedia, it was rarely seen in published works until the 1980s.
However, the concept that economic prosperity in the upper classes flows down into the lower classes is at least 100 years old, the term itself being used mostly by critics of the concept.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that the first known use of “trickle-down” as an adjective meaning “relating to or working on the principle of trickle-down theory” was in 1944, while DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, while the first known use of “trickle-down theory” was in 1954.
As to Joe’s “bottom up middle out” theory, it is hardly new and way back in time, in 1896, in fact, United States Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a “leak” in his Cross of Gold speech, to wit:
“There are two ideas of government.”
“There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below.”
“The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”
Which statement humorist and social commentator Will Rogers in a 1932 column criticizing Herbert Hoover’s policies and approach to The Great Depression, wrote about as follows, which describes exactly where Joe Biden has us today, to wit:
“This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year.”
“They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour.”
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.”
“Mr. Hoover was an engineer.”
“He knew that water trickles down.”
“Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot.”
“But he didn’t know that money trickled up.”
“Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.”
“But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
end quotes
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Paul Plante says:
Now, let’s face it, people, as we go further and further into the SILLY SEASON leading up to the November presidential election, we are confronted with a serious problem as free citizens of the United States of America who care about the QUALITY of our national government, that it is not a corrupt, profligate, scandal-ridden, incompetent, inept, untrustworthy national disgrace, or an international laughing stock on the world stage in this day and age of American DICTATOR and LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Biden ever to achieve such fame and glory in the entire history of the Bidens, is that as a pathological liar, Joe is going to keep lying, telling the same lies over and over, no matter how many times Joe’s lies get debunked, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, nor can we depend on the media, outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, to say boo about it, or to attempt to fact-check Joe, whose pathological lying the main-stream and legacy media simply accept as part of Joe Biden’s character or personal make-up.
Case in point is Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU where Joe came out with the following, to wit:
Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.
And, by the way, I understand corporations.
I come from a state that has more corporations invested than every one of your states in the state — the United States combined.
And I represented it for 36 years.
I’m not anti-corporation.
But I grew up in a home where trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table.
That’s why I’m determined to turn things around so the middle class does well.
When they do well, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very well.
We all do well.
end quotes
Trickle-down economics didn’t put much on Joe’s dad’s kitchen table?
What whiney bull**** that is!
And it is a patently ridiculous statement, as well, given that Joe was born on November 20, 1942, when DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, and there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
Then, Frank Roosevelt died in office so that on April 12, 1945, DEMOCRAT Harry S. “The buck Stops Here” Truman became president, and was president until 1953, and still there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
As to Joe’s statement about growing up in a home where NON-EXISTENT trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table, if we go to Joe’s own published bio on Wikipedia, this is what we find concerning Joe’s father, to wit:
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
end quote
Joe's father was a lousy businessman or money manager and a poor provider which is why little Joey grew up in a home without much on the table, and when poor, starving little Joey was seven years old, it was 1949 and DEMOCRAT Truman was president, so really, people, who does Joe Biden think he is kidding here with his speech on March 7, 2024 which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better.
So, people, think about it, with that bull**** spew about trickle-down, does Joe Biden think we all are unable to grasp reality because he and everyone around him are unable to grasp reality, which thought takes us back to a Newsweek article titled “Joe Biden Airs Thanksgiving Ad To Try To Boost Floundering Campaign” by Giulia Carbonaro on 24 November 2023, where we had the same BIDEN BULL**** that we were subjected to on March 7, 2024 flowing quite freely, to wit:
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign will air a television ad during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday as the president tries to boost support in his bid for re-election, which appears to be dwindling.
Recent polls by The New York Times and Siena College have shown that Biden is losing ground to Donald Trump in five critical states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
That means that the embattled former president — currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a huge margin — is ahead in five out of six key battleground states, where voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was leading only in Washington, where he had an advantage of two percentage points.
The president and Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the one-minute commercial will air during the Lions-Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, in one of those swing states where Biden is trailing Trump, Michigan.
According to the New York Times/Siena poll, Trump would win the state by five percentage points.
The ad, titled “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s Scranton roots and underlines the Democratic president’s understanding of the struggles of middle class Americans, as reported by The Detroit News.
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad says, adding that the middle-class town “has never left him.”
“He knows what life is like for working people and knows middle class life is too expensive right now.”
“For Joe Biden it’s about restoring the sense of security working people deserve — that simple promise, that peace of mind.”
“He’s determined to get it back, because of where he’s from and who he is,” the narrator says in the ad that will show at the Thursday game.
end quotes
“BIDENFLATION JOE” Biden is going to restore the sense of security working people deserve and Joe is determined to get it back, because of where Joe’s from and who Joe is?
Joe Biden a middle-class kid in a middle-class town and the middle-class town has never left him?
Joe Biden’s Scranton roots?
Joe Biden understands the struggles of middle class Americans?
What rot!
And Joe Biden knows what life is like for working people?
How so, people, when there is no evidence that Joe Biden ever worked an honest hour at an honest job in his entire lifetime?
As to Joe’s claims of understanding the middle class, if we go back to Joe’s bio, this is what we are confronted with, to wit:
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.
end quote
Ah, yes, people, Archmere Academy where tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is $32,400.
Good old “middle class” Joe, alright!
As to the term “trickle down economics,” according to Wikipedia, it was rarely seen in published works until the 1980s.
However, the concept that economic prosperity in the upper classes flows down into the lower classes is at least 100 years old, the term itself being used mostly by critics of the concept.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that the first known use of “trickle-down” as an adjective meaning “relating to or working on the principle of trickle-down theory” was in 1944, while DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, while the first known use of “trickle-down theory” was in 1954.
As to Joe’s “bottom up middle out” theory, it is hardly new and way back in time, in 1896, in fact, United States Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a “leak” in his Cross of Gold speech, to wit:
“There are two ideas of government.”
“There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below.”
“The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”
Which statement humorist and social commentator Will Rogers in a 1932 column criticizing Herbert Hoover’s policies and approach to The Great Depression, wrote about as follows, which describes exactly where Joe Biden has us today, to wit:
“This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year.”
“They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour.”
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.”
“Mr. Hoover was an engineer.”
“He knew that water trickles down.”
“Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot.”
“But he didn’t know that money trickled up.”
“Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.”
“But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
end quotes
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 27, 2024 AT 5:51 PM
Paul Plante says:
Before we go further into the stilted and hackneyed political language of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU, which was in reality a cheap, poorly-written and disjointed angry political rant and diatribe (cue RODNEY DANGERFIELD – “NO RESPECT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0toL3C0R14 ) by a shallow, angry old man, let’s go back for a moment to this sentence from above, where Joe came out with the following, to see if we can make a lick of sense out of what Joe is spewing, to wit:
“Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.”
end quotes
When you read that, you are left with no other choice but to set it down as idiotic — a series of words without sense – because that is exactly what it is.
But now imagine Joe Biden in a stentorian voice intoning it as it were designed to be intoned.
Imagine the slow tempo of Joe’s carefully cultivated manner of public speaking, said to be adopted from the style of Paul Devrient, real name Walter Stieber, also Paul Stieber-Walter (17 November 1890 – 5 November 1973) who was a German operatic tenor and theatre director who also gained notoriety as Adolf Hitler’s voice coach and speech teacher in 1932 and for a fee, accompanied Hitler on his propaganda trips across Germany from April to November 1932, not only training Hitler’s voice and speaking technique, but also improving his presence as a political speaker in front of large audiences through acting and rhetoric lessons, which method has served Joe Biden quite well over his very lengthy career as a professional politician serving an endless meal of pure BULL**** to the American people over a long length of years.
Then imagine the stately unrolling of the first clause, “Tonight — tonight,” — the delicate pause upon the word “I” — and then the loud discharge of the phrase “want to talk about the future of possibilities,” “that we can build together,” “a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over” and “the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.” each with its attendant glare by Joe and roll of the eyes of Joe, each with a sublime heave, each with its gesture of a blacksmith bringing down his sledge upon an egg — imagine all this, and then ask yourself where you have got.
You have got, in brief, to a point where you don’t know what it is all about, because it is a ridiculous premise, that somehow, in some mysterious way not yet revealed by Joe, there will be a glorious future created by us today, even though it has never been done before, where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks, especially when under Joe Biden today, it is the wealthy and biggest corporations that are getting all the tax breaks.
As was the case with a political speech by Warren G. Harding, you hear and applaud the phrases because they sound nice, but their connection has already escaped you.
And so, when in violation of all sequence and logic, the final phrase, “all the tax breaks” assaults you, you do not notice its disharmony — all you notice is that, if this or that, already forgotten, is done, “all the tax breaks” will no longer go the wealthy and biggest corporations, while who they will go to is left unsaid.
Anyway, as was the case with people actually watching Joe Biden give his rant on March 7, 2024, as opposed to reading the transcript as I did, they being glad of the assurance from Joe that the wealthy and biggest corporations will no longer be getting all the tax breaks as they are under Joe right now, and thrilled by Joe’s vast gestures as Joe did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about that drive it home, they give a cheer and call out “FOUR MORE YEARS” like a bunch of jackasses.
And how about that, people – doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourself and all warm and squishy inside, knowing in your heart of hearts that Joe Biden, the very important man who is not only COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of all the American people by popular acclaim, because he is the very best we have in this country, but LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, as well, wants to wrap his massive, well-muscled, protective arm around YOU, so he can talk to YOU personally like a babe in swaddling clothes in his arms about the future of possibilities that YOU and Joe can build together, because let’s remember who we are, people, we are the United States of America, and there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, including building a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
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Paul Plante says:
Before we go further into the stilted and hackneyed political language of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU, which was in reality a cheap, poorly-written and disjointed angry political rant and diatribe (cue RODNEY DANGERFIELD – “NO RESPECT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0toL3C0R14 ) by a shallow, angry old man, let’s go back for a moment to this sentence from above, where Joe came out with the following, to see if we can make a lick of sense out of what Joe is spewing, to wit:
“Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.”
end quotes
When you read that, you are left with no other choice but to set it down as idiotic — a series of words without sense – because that is exactly what it is.
But now imagine Joe Biden in a stentorian voice intoning it as it were designed to be intoned.
Imagine the slow tempo of Joe’s carefully cultivated manner of public speaking, said to be adopted from the style of Paul Devrient, real name Walter Stieber, also Paul Stieber-Walter (17 November 1890 – 5 November 1973) who was a German operatic tenor and theatre director who also gained notoriety as Adolf Hitler’s voice coach and speech teacher in 1932 and for a fee, accompanied Hitler on his propaganda trips across Germany from April to November 1932, not only training Hitler’s voice and speaking technique, but also improving his presence as a political speaker in front of large audiences through acting and rhetoric lessons, which method has served Joe Biden quite well over his very lengthy career as a professional politician serving an endless meal of pure BULL**** to the American people over a long length of years.
Then imagine the stately unrolling of the first clause, “Tonight — tonight,” — the delicate pause upon the word “I” — and then the loud discharge of the phrase “want to talk about the future of possibilities,” “that we can build together,” “a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over” and “the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.” each with its attendant glare by Joe and roll of the eyes of Joe, each with a sublime heave, each with its gesture of a blacksmith bringing down his sledge upon an egg — imagine all this, and then ask yourself where you have got.
You have got, in brief, to a point where you don’t know what it is all about, because it is a ridiculous premise, that somehow, in some mysterious way not yet revealed by Joe, there will be a glorious future created by us today, even though it has never been done before, where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks, especially when under Joe Biden today, it is the wealthy and biggest corporations that are getting all the tax breaks.
As was the case with a political speech by Warren G. Harding, you hear and applaud the phrases because they sound nice, but their connection has already escaped you.
And so, when in violation of all sequence and logic, the final phrase, “all the tax breaks” assaults you, you do not notice its disharmony — all you notice is that, if this or that, already forgotten, is done, “all the tax breaks” will no longer go the wealthy and biggest corporations, while who they will go to is left unsaid.
Anyway, as was the case with people actually watching Joe Biden give his rant on March 7, 2024, as opposed to reading the transcript as I did, they being glad of the assurance from Joe that the wealthy and biggest corporations will no longer be getting all the tax breaks as they are under Joe right now, and thrilled by Joe’s vast gestures as Joe did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about that drive it home, they give a cheer and call out “FOUR MORE YEARS” like a bunch of jackasses.
And how about that, people – doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourself and all warm and squishy inside, knowing in your heart of hearts that Joe Biden, the very important man who is not only COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of all the American people by popular acclaim, because he is the very best we have in this country, but LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, as well, wants to wrap his massive, well-muscled, protective arm around YOU, so he can talk to YOU personally like a babe in swaddling clothes in his arms about the future of possibilities that YOU and Joe can build together, because let’s remember who we are, people, we are the United States of America, and there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, including building a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 29, 2024 AT 9:37 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as we are adults in here, people, not no longer naive children as we once might have been, with it so very easy to pull the wool over our eyes as it once perhaps was, we can’t kid or delude ourselves into either thinking or believing that the future is anything other than possibilities, precisely because the future, not being here yet, does not exist.
That is what the future always is, always has been, and always will be – nothing more than endless possibilities, and assign all the probabilities to the possibilities that you want to, you, and Joe Biden and all the king’s men and all the kings horses can no more build the future together, than you can move the moon to a different position in the heavens so it don’t shine in your bedroom window anymore at night to keep you awake.
And you and Joe can remember all you want that you are the United States of America, and think like deluded fools and idiots that there is nothing — nothing beyond your capacity when you act together, something which has never yet happened in this nation’s history, and never will, because it is an impossibility to have 330 million people all working together on something at the same time, because there is no way to coordinate their efforts, or even to give them all proper instructions as to what must be dome next.
So, with that said, it should be obvious that deluded, senile Joe Biden, who has never yet built anything in his life other than a lucrative political career for himself and the Biden family, cannot build a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
He can pretend he can, and there are deluded people out there willing to pretend along with him, but pretending is merely pretending, and anyone who engages in the effort with Joe is a fool.
And speaking as an engineer, there is a veritable host of things the United States cannot do, like invent a perpetual motion machine, so that is simply a very stupid statement from Joe Biden aimed at people even more stupid than he is.
And stupid statements, people, DO NOT belong in a State of the Union address, yet Joe Biden’s MOCK SOTU, in actuality a cheap, poorly-written angry political rant by a small, angry old man, was chock-a-block with them as well as cheap shots at his political enemy and opponent, which again do not belong in a State of the Union address, but nonetheless, there they are, to wit:
America is a founding member of NATO, the military alliance of democratic nations created after World War Two prevent — to prevent war and keep the peace.
And today, we’ve made NATO stronger than ever.
We welcomed Finland to the Alliance last year.
And just this morning, Sweden officially joined, and their minister is here tonight.
Stand up.
Welcome.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
And they know how to fight.
Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to NATO, the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen.
end quotes
The Swedes know how to fight?
How so, Joe, when Sweden had a policy of neutrality in armed conflicts from the early 19th century, until 2009?
Sweden wanted to remain neutral during World War II and in fact, it successfully avoided entering the war, although depending on the course of the war, the Swedes sometimes tended to act more pro-German, while at other times they supported the policies of the Allies.
According to high school history, which Joe Biden himself knows absolutely nothing about, being the stupidest human being to ever serve as an American president, the last time the Swedes actually fought was a short war against Norway in 1814, which is TWO HUNDRED TEN (210) years ago now, so what then, besides his over-active imagination, makes Joe Biden think the Swedes can fight?
And NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
That’s BIDEN BULL****, plain and simple.
Does Joe Biden think we are all so stupid and uninformed that we cannot possibly remember or recall that NATO’s ill-fated and incompetent engagement in Afghanistan against some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen began in August 2003 and then ended ignominiously (deserving or causing public disgrace or shame) in August 2021 when NATO ran away like a bunch of scared rabbits, including Joe Biden, which resulted in the collapse of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, who Joe Biden and NATO were unable to beat.
As to Iraqinam, from 2004 to 2011, NATO conducted a relatively small support operation in Iraq that consisted of training, mentoring and assisting the Iraqi security forces.
So, if NATO was run out of Afganistnam like a chicken-killing dog by some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen, which it was, then how can Joe Biden truthfully say that NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
But let’s face it, people, we are dealing here with Joe Biden, whose flights of fancy (an unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream) are legendary, so this is what we have to expect from him, and this is what we are now going to be confronted with between now and November, which is going to be nothing but a continuing litany of lies from Joe Biden and his enablers and apologists in the main-stream and legacy media, as well as his cabinet members and NSC members, who are all out there on the campaign trail for Joe, beating their drums and chanting his name, calling for “FOUR MORE YEARS,” and God help the nation if that should occur, because we are going to need it!
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Paul Plante says:
And as we are adults in here, people, not no longer naive children as we once might have been, with it so very easy to pull the wool over our eyes as it once perhaps was, we can’t kid or delude ourselves into either thinking or believing that the future is anything other than possibilities, precisely because the future, not being here yet, does not exist.
That is what the future always is, always has been, and always will be – nothing more than endless possibilities, and assign all the probabilities to the possibilities that you want to, you, and Joe Biden and all the king’s men and all the kings horses can no more build the future together, than you can move the moon to a different position in the heavens so it don’t shine in your bedroom window anymore at night to keep you awake.
And you and Joe can remember all you want that you are the United States of America, and think like deluded fools and idiots that there is nothing — nothing beyond your capacity when you act together, something which has never yet happened in this nation’s history, and never will, because it is an impossibility to have 330 million people all working together on something at the same time, because there is no way to coordinate their efforts, or even to give them all proper instructions as to what must be dome next.
So, with that said, it should be obvious that deluded, senile Joe Biden, who has never yet built anything in his life other than a lucrative political career for himself and the Biden family, cannot build a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
He can pretend he can, and there are deluded people out there willing to pretend along with him, but pretending is merely pretending, and anyone who engages in the effort with Joe is a fool.
And speaking as an engineer, there is a veritable host of things the United States cannot do, like invent a perpetual motion machine, so that is simply a very stupid statement from Joe Biden aimed at people even more stupid than he is.
And stupid statements, people, DO NOT belong in a State of the Union address, yet Joe Biden’s MOCK SOTU, in actuality a cheap, poorly-written angry political rant by a small, angry old man, was chock-a-block with them as well as cheap shots at his political enemy and opponent, which again do not belong in a State of the Union address, but nonetheless, there they are, to wit:
America is a founding member of NATO, the military alliance of democratic nations created after World War Two prevent — to prevent war and keep the peace.
And today, we’ve made NATO stronger than ever.
We welcomed Finland to the Alliance last year.
And just this morning, Sweden officially joined, and their minister is here tonight.
Stand up.
Welcome.
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
And they know how to fight.
Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to NATO, the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen.
end quotes
The Swedes know how to fight?
How so, Joe, when Sweden had a policy of neutrality in armed conflicts from the early 19th century, until 2009?
Sweden wanted to remain neutral during World War II and in fact, it successfully avoided entering the war, although depending on the course of the war, the Swedes sometimes tended to act more pro-German, while at other times they supported the policies of the Allies.
According to high school history, which Joe Biden himself knows absolutely nothing about, being the stupidest human being to ever serve as an American president, the last time the Swedes actually fought was a short war against Norway in 1814, which is TWO HUNDRED TEN (210) years ago now, so what then, besides his over-active imagination, makes Joe Biden think the Swedes can fight?
And NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
That’s BIDEN BULL****, plain and simple.
Does Joe Biden think we are all so stupid and uninformed that we cannot possibly remember or recall that NATO’s ill-fated and incompetent engagement in Afghanistan against some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen began in August 2003 and then ended ignominiously (deserving or causing public disgrace or shame) in August 2021 when NATO ran away like a bunch of scared rabbits, including Joe Biden, which resulted in the collapse of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the return to power of the Taliban, who Joe Biden and NATO were unable to beat.
As to Iraqinam, from 2004 to 2011, NATO conducted a relatively small support operation in Iraq that consisted of training, mentoring and assisting the Iraqi security forces.
So, if NATO was run out of Afganistnam like a chicken-killing dog by some poorly-armed Tenth Century tribesmen, which it was, then how can Joe Biden truthfully say that NATO is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen?
But let’s face it, people, we are dealing here with Joe Biden, whose flights of fancy (an unrealistic idea or fantastic notion, a pipe dream) are legendary, so this is what we have to expect from him, and this is what we are now going to be confronted with between now and November, which is going to be nothing but a continuing litany of lies from Joe Biden and his enablers and apologists in the main-stream and legacy media, as well as his cabinet members and NSC members, who are all out there on the campaign trail for Joe, beating their drums and chanting his name, calling for “FOUR MORE YEARS,” and God help the nation if that should occur, because we are going to need it!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 30, 2024 AT 6:24 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here, on March 7, 2024, with this following from Joe’s MOCK SOTU, we were plunged by Joe Biden into the depths of mindless gibberish and mere sound and fury signifying exactly nothing, or as H.L. Mencken would have it, the immemorial blather of a candidate for office under democracy, addressing multitudes unfamiliar with ideas and incapable of thought, the sort of sonorous bilge that delights Kiwanis Clubs, attendants at Methodist revivals, and the editorial writers for party newspapers, to wit:
We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be [defeated].
end quote
And what crap that is, given democracy is nothing but a concept with no concrete meaning, and it certainly isn’t a possession of either Joe Biden, who in my estimation cherishes and worships the word “democracy” the way Gollum called the ring “my precious” (cue Gollum loses his Precious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBgPEdWeKM ) or the United States of America.
And if in fact we must be honest, and why wouldn’t we be, given we are not politicians like Joe Biden who lie and dissemble and mislead for a living, what exactly is the threat to democracy that we must defeat?
Does anyone have an inkling, or a clue?
Has anyone ever heard Joe Biden be explicit about this supposed threat to democracy, which itself is an unstable political system, that according to Jemmy Madison, himself as much an American president as is this loser Biden, in Federalist No. 10 where Jemmy stated as follows as to what Joe Biden’s “democracy” has “blessed” us with today, to wit:
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
end quote
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into OUR national government in our times today by the policies of Joe Biden are now the mortal diseases under which our REPUBLICAN FORM of government may well perish thanks to Joe Biden, and when I think of an ADVERSARY TO LIBERTY in this country, the name which comes readily to mind is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and more to the point, given we have a Constitutional Republic in this country (see, U.S. Constitution article IV, § 4; The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government), what democracy is Joe Biden talking about that is supposedly under threat?
Which takes us back to March 7, 2024 and the MOCK SOTU and more BIDEN BLATHER, to wit:
As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask all of you, without regard to party, to join together and defend democracy.
end quote
Join together and defend democracy?
How, Joe, when it is you and the DEMOCRATS who you are asking us to join with who are the clear and present threats and true danger to free and fair elections in this country with your on-going efforts to make sure that the name Joe Biden is the only choice for president in November?
Going back to the MOCK SOTU, Joe went on as follows:
Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.
end quote
And how about you remembering yours, Joe, which again takes us back to the MOCK SOTU, to wit:
Respect — respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place — no place in America.
Zero place.
Again, it’s not — it’s not hyperbole to suggest history is watching.
They’re watching.
Your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do.
end quotes
Yes, people, that is exactly true, which thought takes us to a New York Post article titled “Biden and the party of ‘democracy’ are terrified of third-party candidates and voter choice” by Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School on 25 March 2024, where we have political reality in America stated as follows, to wit:
The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics.
Mayor Richard Daley declared “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
The Democratic National Committee has now added its own gem: the Democratic Party is not here to preserve democracy, it is here to prevent democracy.
end quotes
And boy, is he dead on the money there, which is what makes this above blather by Joe Biden about us joining together with Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS to defend democracy in his March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU so pitiably stupid sounding, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because the DNC is seeking to block third party candidates from ballots — Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornell West, and Jill Stein.
All three are liberal and are considered a threat to Joe Biden.
This effort will likely include any ticket put forward by the No Labels group, seeking a moderate alternative to the two parties.
According to media reports, former Buttigieg campaign aide Lis Smith will lead the effort with another Buttigieg alumni, Matt Corridoni.
This effort includes not just a public campaign against Kennedy and Stein as spoilers, but “legal action” to solve the problem by denying voters a choice.
end quotes
And denying voters a choice is exactly what BIDEN FAUX DEMOCRACY is all about, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The media does not appear at all alarmed or critical of the effort to limit democratic choice.
end quote
With the exception of the Cape Charles Mirror, the media is all but worthless, as well, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The Washington Post stated clinically “Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.”
Taking it seriously appears to mean using legal means to keep them from the ballots.
It is true that the main political parties have challenged qualification signatures and paperwork in the past.
However, the reports indicate a systemic effort geared toward reducing the choices for voters.
What is striking is that this is coming from democratic groups and the DNC, which are raising money on this pledge.
The contradiction is spellbinding.
On the same sites promising to oppose the third party candidates, the DNC and other groups push the narrative that only the Democrats are working to protect the right to vote.
The Post reports that Democrats have studied the Hillary Clinton campaign and vowed not to allow third party candidates to drain away millions of voters as they did in 2016.
Of course, the comparison is particularly telling because in both 2016 and 2024, the DNC had the least popular Democratic candidates.
Polls showed that Clinton was the worst possible candidate for the party, but the Clintons had control over the DNC and state party organizations.
Of particular concern is the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan by only 67,000 votes.
In just those states, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Stein received more than half a million votes.
Rather than actually pick a candidate that most citizens want, the DNC wants to replay the 2016 strategy of forcing the choice between two evils in a Biden-Trump choice.
That can only work reliably if there is no other choice for citizens tired of the duopoly and the political (and media) establishment.
So Kennedy, Cornell, and Stein just have to go.
I am one of those misguided voters.
Years ago, I wrote a column saying that I was tired of voting for the lesser of two evils — leaving every election as a moral hazard.
We are played as chumps by a political and media establishment in every election system.
Over two decades ago, I pledged to vote for the best candidate, even if they are with a third party.
The DNC is reportedly to be joined in this effort by a well-financed array of groups including the liberal think tank Third Way (which has filed complaints with secretaries of states); American Bridge (a Democratic opposition operation), and Clear Choice (a super PAC composed of “allies of President Biden”).
While these groups work to limit the choice of voters, the effort continues in Florida, Georgia, Washington, and New York to keep Trump in court until the election, including a possible trial running up to or even through the election.
There is hope that this multi-front effort will be the winning ticket, particularly if the ultimate ticket denies voters any other choice.
The open discussion of these efforts in the media illustrates the contempt for voters, who need to be protected from their bad choices.
I have previously compared the underlying assumptions to a type of electoral Big Gulp law.
Before they were also struck down, these laws sought to take away the dietary choices of citizens because they were making the wrong choice in the view of experts.
Now activists are now big gulping the election.
Voters cannot be trusted with something as important as democracy.
President Biden has said “make no mistake: Democracy is on the ballot for all of us.”
Of course, he could end this effort by denouncing further ballot cleansing (something he refused to do when Trump was removed by the Colorado and Maine ballots).
It appears that the last thing that democracy needs is free democratic choice.
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Paul Plante says:
And here, on March 7, 2024, with this following from Joe’s MOCK SOTU, we were plunged by Joe Biden into the depths of mindless gibberish and mere sound and fury signifying exactly nothing, or as H.L. Mencken would have it, the immemorial blather of a candidate for office under democracy, addressing multitudes unfamiliar with ideas and incapable of thought, the sort of sonorous bilge that delights Kiwanis Clubs, attendants at Methodist revivals, and the editorial writers for party newspapers, to wit:
We must be honest: The threat to democracy must be [defeated].
end quote
And what crap that is, given democracy is nothing but a concept with no concrete meaning, and it certainly isn’t a possession of either Joe Biden, who in my estimation cherishes and worships the word “democracy” the way Gollum called the ring “my precious” (cue Gollum loses his Precious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBgPEdWeKM ) or the United States of America.
And if in fact we must be honest, and why wouldn’t we be, given we are not politicians like Joe Biden who lie and dissemble and mislead for a living, what exactly is the threat to democracy that we must defeat?
Does anyone have an inkling, or a clue?
Has anyone ever heard Joe Biden be explicit about this supposed threat to democracy, which itself is an unstable political system, that according to Jemmy Madison, himself as much an American president as is this loser Biden, in Federalist No. 10 where Jemmy stated as follows as to what Joe Biden’s “democracy” has “blessed” us with today, to wit:
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
end quote
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into OUR national government in our times today by the policies of Joe Biden are now the mortal diseases under which our REPUBLICAN FORM of government may well perish thanks to Joe Biden, and when I think of an ADVERSARY TO LIBERTY in this country, the name which comes readily to mind is Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and more to the point, given we have a Constitutional Republic in this country (see, U.S. Constitution article IV, § 4; The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government), what democracy is Joe Biden talking about that is supposedly under threat?
Which takes us back to March 7, 2024 and the MOCK SOTU and more BIDEN BLATHER, to wit:
As I’ve done ever since being elected to office, I ask all of you, without regard to party, to join together and defend democracy.
end quote
Join together and defend democracy?
How, Joe, when it is you and the DEMOCRATS who you are asking us to join with who are the clear and present threats and true danger to free and fair elections in this country with your on-going efforts to make sure that the name Joe Biden is the only choice for president in November?
Going back to the MOCK SOTU, Joe went on as follows:
Remember your oath of office to defend against all threats foreign and domestic.
end quote
And how about you remembering yours, Joe, which again takes us back to the MOCK SOTU, to wit:
Respect — respect free and fair elections, restore trust in our institutions, and make clear political violence has absolutely no place — no place in America.
Zero place.
Again, it’s not — it’s not hyperbole to suggest history is watching.
They’re watching.
Your children and grandchildren will read about this day and what we do.
end quotes
Yes, people, that is exactly true, which thought takes us to a New York Post article titled “Biden and the party of ‘democracy’ are terrified of third-party candidates and voter choice” by Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School on 25 March 2024, where we have political reality in America stated as follows, to wit:
The last time that the Chicago Democratic Convention was held in Chicago in 1968, the resulting riots led to one of the greatest Freudian slips in American politics.
Mayor Richard Daley declared “the policeman isn’t there to create disorder; the policeman is there to preserve disorder.”
The Democratic National Committee has now added its own gem: the Democratic Party is not here to preserve democracy, it is here to prevent democracy.
end quotes
And boy, is he dead on the money there, which is what makes this above blather by Joe Biden about us joining together with Joe Biden and the DEMOCRATS to defend democracy in his March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU so pitiably stupid sounding, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
That’s because the DNC is seeking to block third party candidates from ballots — Robert Kennedy Jr., Cornell West, and Jill Stein.
All three are liberal and are considered a threat to Joe Biden.
This effort will likely include any ticket put forward by the No Labels group, seeking a moderate alternative to the two parties.
According to media reports, former Buttigieg campaign aide Lis Smith will lead the effort with another Buttigieg alumni, Matt Corridoni.
This effort includes not just a public campaign against Kennedy and Stein as spoilers, but “legal action” to solve the problem by denying voters a choice.
end quotes
And denying voters a choice is exactly what BIDEN FAUX DEMOCRACY is all about, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The media does not appear at all alarmed or critical of the effort to limit democratic choice.
end quote
With the exception of the Cape Charles Mirror, the media is all but worthless, as well, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
The Washington Post stated clinically “Democrats are taking third-party threats seriously this time.”
Taking it seriously appears to mean using legal means to keep them from the ballots.
It is true that the main political parties have challenged qualification signatures and paperwork in the past.
However, the reports indicate a systemic effort geared toward reducing the choices for voters.
What is striking is that this is coming from democratic groups and the DNC, which are raising money on this pledge.
The contradiction is spellbinding.
On the same sites promising to oppose the third party candidates, the DNC and other groups push the narrative that only the Democrats are working to protect the right to vote.
The Post reports that Democrats have studied the Hillary Clinton campaign and vowed not to allow third party candidates to drain away millions of voters as they did in 2016.
Of course, the comparison is particularly telling because in both 2016 and 2024, the DNC had the least popular Democratic candidates.
Polls showed that Clinton was the worst possible candidate for the party, but the Clintons had control over the DNC and state party organizations.
Of particular concern is the fact that Trump beat Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan by only 67,000 votes.
In just those states, Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Stein received more than half a million votes.
Rather than actually pick a candidate that most citizens want, the DNC wants to replay the 2016 strategy of forcing the choice between two evils in a Biden-Trump choice.
That can only work reliably if there is no other choice for citizens tired of the duopoly and the political (and media) establishment.
So Kennedy, Cornell, and Stein just have to go.
I am one of those misguided voters.
Years ago, I wrote a column saying that I was tired of voting for the lesser of two evils — leaving every election as a moral hazard.
We are played as chumps by a political and media establishment in every election system.
Over two decades ago, I pledged to vote for the best candidate, even if they are with a third party.
The DNC is reportedly to be joined in this effort by a well-financed array of groups including the liberal think tank Third Way (which has filed complaints with secretaries of states); American Bridge (a Democratic opposition operation), and Clear Choice (a super PAC composed of “allies of President Biden”).
While these groups work to limit the choice of voters, the effort continues in Florida, Georgia, Washington, and New York to keep Trump in court until the election, including a possible trial running up to or even through the election.
There is hope that this multi-front effort will be the winning ticket, particularly if the ultimate ticket denies voters any other choice.
The open discussion of these efforts in the media illustrates the contempt for voters, who need to be protected from their bad choices.
I have previously compared the underlying assumptions to a type of electoral Big Gulp law.
Before they were also struck down, these laws sought to take away the dietary choices of citizens because they were making the wrong choice in the view of experts.
Now activists are now big gulping the election.
Voters cannot be trusted with something as important as democracy.
President Biden has said “make no mistake: Democracy is on the ballot for all of us.”
Of course, he could end this effort by denouncing further ballot cleansing (something he refused to do when Trump was removed by the Colorado and Maine ballots).
It appears that the last thing that democracy needs is free democratic choice.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 1, 2024 AT 9:07 PM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go to an article in the Brit publication The Telegraph titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 to see where in their estimation Joe Biden has brought America down to, while we’re on this subject of “DEMOCRACY” which is so dear to Joe Biden’s heart, even though he can’t say what his version of a “DEMOCRACY” actually is, given that officially, North Korea is an “independent socialist state” which like America under Joe Biden holds democratic elections, and even Iran’s complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy which makes it highly questionable exactly which brand of “DEMOCRACY” Joe Biden is actually on about, let’s go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York where we have as follows concerning “DEMOCRACY,” to wit:
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.
end quote
And since we right now are witnessing the violence of faction in this country, as Joe Biden and his FACTION try to control our national election going into November 2024, it logically follows that we do not have a well-constructed union in this country, no matter what crap Joe Biden spewed about it on March 7, 2024, which takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.
end quotes
And as those particular constitutions in this country are now largely dead letters (see University of Richmond Law Review, A Vanishing Virginia Constitution? by the Honorable Stephen R. McCullough on Jan 13, 2012 https://lawreview.richmond.edu/2012/01/ ... stitution/) it would indeed be an unwarrantable partiality on our part today to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
end quotes
And yes, people, right there he is indeed talking about Joe Biden and his DEMOCRAT PARTY FACTION when he states that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority, which takes us back for more, to wit:
However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other.
These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
end quotes
And it is that FACTIOUS SPIRIT which we will be confronted with by the Brits in The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 where we will be told that the base of the Democratic Party of today under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street, which takes us back to Federalist No. 10, to wit:
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
end quote
And by that definition, the Democrat party of today is very much a faction, and very much a faction united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens in America, which is all of us who are not BIDEN DEMOCRATS, and to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community, which takes us to the heart of the matter as follows, to wit:
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
end quotes
And with that in front of us for our consideration, let’s pause here for station identification, and after several hours of Informercials about just how good and beneficial the Joe Biden administration has been for America and the Democrats, we will be right back with more Federalist No. 10 so stay tuned.
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go to an article in the Brit publication The Telegraph titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 to see where in their estimation Joe Biden has brought America down to, while we’re on this subject of “DEMOCRACY” which is so dear to Joe Biden’s heart, even though he can’t say what his version of a “DEMOCRACY” actually is, given that officially, North Korea is an “independent socialist state” which like America under Joe Biden holds democratic elections, and even Iran’s complex and unusual political system combines elements of a modern Islamic theocracy with democracy which makes it highly questionable exactly which brand of “DEMOCRACY” Joe Biden is actually on about, let’s go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York where we have as follows concerning “DEMOCRACY,” to wit:
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.
end quote
And since we right now are witnessing the violence of faction in this country, as Joe Biden and his FACTION try to control our national election going into November 2024, it logically follows that we do not have a well-constructed union in this country, no matter what crap Joe Biden spewed about it on March 7, 2024, which takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it.
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations.
The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected.
end quotes
And as those particular constitutions in this country are now largely dead letters (see University of Richmond Law Review, A Vanishing Virginia Constitution? by the Honorable Stephen R. McCullough on Jan 13, 2012 https://lawreview.richmond.edu/2012/01/ ... stitution/) it would indeed be an unwarrantable partiality on our part today to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
end quotes
And yes, people, right there he is indeed talking about Joe Biden and his DEMOCRAT PARTY FACTION when he states that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority, which takes us back for more, to wit:
However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true.
It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other.
These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.
end quotes
And it is that FACTIOUS SPIRIT which we will be confronted with by the Brits in The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024 where we will be told that the base of the Democratic Party of today under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street, which takes us back to Federalist No. 10, to wit:
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
end quote
And by that definition, the Democrat party of today is very much a faction, and very much a faction united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens in America, which is all of us who are not BIDEN DEMOCRATS, and to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community, which takes us to the heart of the matter as follows, to wit:
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.
There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence; the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.
end quotes
And with that in front of us for our consideration, let’s pause here for station identification, and after several hours of Informercials about just how good and beneficial the Joe Biden administration has been for America and the Democrats, we will be right back with more Federalist No. 10 so stay tuned.
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 3, 2024 AT 10:38 AM
Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction being on the one hand to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, to see that iron fist closing here in America, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “White House’s Brainard says corporate profits remain elevated” on March 28, 2024, where we have Joe trying to assume total control over how much profit any given business in America in entitled to, according to Joe, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) – White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday corporate profits remain elevated, after U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March to the highest in nearly three years on hopes inflation will keep softening.
Brainard said the Biden administration still has work to do to lower costs – a high priority as President Joe Biden grapples with voter attitudes about stubbornly high prices and mounting housing costs.
“We have more work to do to lower costs for American families … with corporate profits still elevated, President Biden will continue to call on companies to pass their savings on to consumers,” she said.
end quotes
As to Joe’s lame efforts to control the economy, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US inflation moderating; consumer spending underpinning economy” by Lucia Mutikani on March 29, 2024, where we have this dose of reality to consider as we head into November and the presidential elections, to wit:
Data for January was revised higher to show the PCE price index climbing 0.4% instead of 0.3% as previously reported.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, jumped 0.8% last month.
But much of the spending was funded from savings as income rose 0.3% after accelerating 1.0% in January on the back of a Costco Wholesale Corporation special dividend.
Income at the disposal of households after accounting for inflation and taxes fell 0.1%.
end quotes
INCOME AT THE DISPOSAL OF HOUSEHOLDS IN AMERICA FELL UNDER BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Don’t believe Joe’s lies to the contrary!
As to BIDENFLATION, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing on the mend; rising raw material prices pose obstacle” by Lucia Mutikani on April 1, 2024, where we have this news from that front, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing grew for the first time in 1-1/2 years in March as production rebounded sharply and new orders increased, but employment at factories remained subdued amid “sizable layoff activity” and prices for inputs pushed higher.
While the manufacturing rebound is a boost for the economy’s growth prospects, the rise in raw material prices suggested goods inflation could pick up in the months ahead.
Nonetheless, inflation at the factory gate picked up.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers rose to 55.8 from 52.5 in February, indicating raw materials prices increased last month.
Twenty-four percent of companies reported higher prices compared to 18% in the prior month.
end quotes
So more BIDENFLATION misery is on the way from there.
And how about the price of a gallon of gas?
On March 22, 2024, I paid $3.87 for a gallon of 89-octane gas, up from $3.72 a gallon the time before.
So why then is gas going up?
Because Joe Biden has his puppet province Ukraine and its tin-pot dictator Vladimer Zelensky bombing Russian oil infrastructure with drones, as we see in the Reuters article titled “Oil settles up on supply threats, hits 2024 highs during session” by Laura Sanicola on April 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that score, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday after a session in which Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities and escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed the Brent benchmark above $89 a barrel for the first time since October.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May settled up $1.44, or about 1.7%, to $85.15 after touching a peak of $85.46, also the highest since October.
A Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries in an attack Russia initially said it repelled.
A Reuters analysis of images showing the impact of the attack suggests it hit the refinery’s primary oil refining unit, which accounts for about half of the plant’s total annual production capacity of 340,000 barrels per day (bpd).
“The likelihood that continued restricted Russian product exports could further tighten US petroleum supplies has suddenly forced re-calculation of U.S. (oil) balances across the rest of this month and possibly beyond,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates LLC.
end quotes
So, expect to be further behind in your finances thanks to BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS as we move through the months ahead to November and the election, which takes us another Reuters article titled “US construction spending falls for second straight month in February” on April 1, 2024, where we learned as follows:
WASHINGTON, April 1(Reuters) – U.S. construction spending unexpectedly fell in February as strength in single-family homebuilding was more than offset by weaknesses in nonresidential and public projects.
The Commerce Department said on Monday that construction spending dropped 0.3% after an unrevised 0.2% decline in January.
Spending on private construction projects was unchanged for a second straight month in February
Outlays on private non-residential structures like factories dropped 0.9%.
Spending on manufacturing construction projects fell 0.6%.
end quotes
So where then is this HUGE BOOST to our economy from all these INSANE GREEN DREAM construction projects that Joe Biden is pouring HUGE FEDERAL DOLLARS into?
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit” by Stephen Nellis on April 2, 2024, where we have this bit of reality to consider, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Semiconductor company Intel disclosed increasing operating losses for its foundry business on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing.
Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before.
Intel shares were down 4.3% after the documents were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
During a presentation for investors, Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said that 2024 would be the year of worst operating losses for the company’s chipmaking business and that it expects to break even on an operating basis by about 2027.
Gelsinger said that the foundry business was weighed down by bad decisions, including one years ago against using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines from Dutch firm ASML.
Intel plans to spend $100 billion on building or expanding chip factories in four U.S. states.
Its business turnaround plan depends on persuading outside companies to use its manufacturing services.
end quotes
INTEL’S BUSINESS TURNAROUND PLAN DEPENDS ON THEM PERSUADING OUTSIDE COMPANIES TO USE THEIR MANUFACTURING SERVICES!
Think about what is being said there, as we then go to a Reuters article titled “Intel latest to get US funds for chips, more grants and loans planned” on March 20, 2024, to9 wit:
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Intel Corp on Wednesday was the latest semiconductor company to be awarded billions of dollars in grants and loans from the U.S. government in President Joe Biden’s effort to supercharge domestic chip output.
end quotes
JOE BIDEN’S EFFORT TO SUPERCHARGE DOMESTIC CHIP OUTPUT WHICH JOE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!
Yes, people, good old Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING at its finest!
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Paul Plante says:
And before we go back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction being on the one hand to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, to see that iron fist closing here in America, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “White House’s Brainard says corporate profits remain elevated” on March 28, 2024, where we have Joe trying to assume total control over how much profit any given business in America in entitled to, according to Joe, to wit:
WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) – White House National Economic Adviser Lael Brainard said on Thursday corporate profits remain elevated, after U.S. consumer sentiment rose unexpectedly in March to the highest in nearly three years on hopes inflation will keep softening.
Brainard said the Biden administration still has work to do to lower costs – a high priority as President Joe Biden grapples with voter attitudes about stubbornly high prices and mounting housing costs.
“We have more work to do to lower costs for American families … with corporate profits still elevated, President Biden will continue to call on companies to pass their savings on to consumers,” she said.
end quotes
As to Joe’s lame efforts to control the economy, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US inflation moderating; consumer spending underpinning economy” by Lucia Mutikani on March 29, 2024, where we have this dose of reality to consider as we head into November and the presidential elections, to wit:
Data for January was revised higher to show the PCE price index climbing 0.4% instead of 0.3% as previously reported.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, jumped 0.8% last month.
But much of the spending was funded from savings as income rose 0.3% after accelerating 1.0% in January on the back of a Costco Wholesale Corporation special dividend.
Income at the disposal of households after accounting for inflation and taxes fell 0.1%.
end quotes
INCOME AT THE DISPOSAL OF HOUSEHOLDS IN AMERICA FELL UNDER BIDE-O-NOMICS!
Don’t believe Joe’s lies to the contrary!
As to BIDENFLATION, let’s go to a Reuters article titled “US manufacturing on the mend; rising raw material prices pose obstacle” by Lucia Mutikani on April 1, 2024, where we have this news from that front, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. manufacturing grew for the first time in 1-1/2 years in March as production rebounded sharply and new orders increased, but employment at factories remained subdued amid “sizable layoff activity” and prices for inputs pushed higher.
While the manufacturing rebound is a boost for the economy’s growth prospects, the rise in raw material prices suggested goods inflation could pick up in the months ahead.
Nonetheless, inflation at the factory gate picked up.
The survey’s measure of prices paid by manufacturers rose to 55.8 from 52.5 in February, indicating raw materials prices increased last month.
Twenty-four percent of companies reported higher prices compared to 18% in the prior month.
end quotes
So more BIDENFLATION misery is on the way from there.
And how about the price of a gallon of gas?
On March 22, 2024, I paid $3.87 for a gallon of 89-octane gas, up from $3.72 a gallon the time before.
So why then is gas going up?
Because Joe Biden has his puppet province Ukraine and its tin-pot dictator Vladimer Zelensky bombing Russian oil infrastructure with drones, as we see in the Reuters article titled “Oil settles up on supply threats, hits 2024 highs during session” by Laura Sanicola on April 2, 2024, where we have as follows on that score, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday after a session in which Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy facilities and escalating conflict in the Middle East pushed the Brent benchmark above $89 a barrel for the first time since October.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures for May settled up $1.44, or about 1.7%, to $85.15 after touching a peak of $85.46, also the highest since October.
A Ukrainian drone struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries in an attack Russia initially said it repelled.
A Reuters analysis of images showing the impact of the attack suggests it hit the refinery’s primary oil refining unit, which accounts for about half of the plant’s total annual production capacity of 340,000 barrels per day (bpd).
“The likelihood that continued restricted Russian product exports could further tighten US petroleum supplies has suddenly forced re-calculation of U.S. (oil) balances across the rest of this month and possibly beyond,” said Jim Ritterbusch, president of Ritterbusch and Associates LLC.
end quotes
So, expect to be further behind in your finances thanks to BIDENFLATION caused by BIDE-O-NOMICS as we move through the months ahead to November and the election, which takes us another Reuters article titled “US construction spending falls for second straight month in February” on April 1, 2024, where we learned as follows:
WASHINGTON, April 1(Reuters) – U.S. construction spending unexpectedly fell in February as strength in single-family homebuilding was more than offset by weaknesses in nonresidential and public projects.
The Commerce Department said on Monday that construction spending dropped 0.3% after an unrevised 0.2% decline in January.
Spending on private construction projects was unchanged for a second straight month in February
Outlays on private non-residential structures like factories dropped 0.9%.
Spending on manufacturing construction projects fell 0.6%.
end quotes
So where then is this HUGE BOOST to our economy from all these INSANE GREEN DREAM construction projects that Joe Biden is pouring HUGE FEDERAL DOLLARS into?
Which takes us to a Reuters article titled “Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit” by Stephen Nellis on April 2, 2024, where we have this bit of reality to consider, to wit:
April 2 (Reuters) – Semiconductor company Intel disclosed increasing operating losses for its foundry business on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing.
Intel said the manufacturing unit had $7 billion in operating losses for 2023, a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before.
Intel shares were down 4.3% after the documents were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
During a presentation for investors, Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said that 2024 would be the year of worst operating losses for the company’s chipmaking business and that it expects to break even on an operating basis by about 2027.
Gelsinger said that the foundry business was weighed down by bad decisions, including one years ago against using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) machines from Dutch firm ASML.
Intel plans to spend $100 billion on building or expanding chip factories in four U.S. states.
Its business turnaround plan depends on persuading outside companies to use its manufacturing services.
end quotes
INTEL’S BUSINESS TURNAROUND PLAN DEPENDS ON THEM PERSUADING OUTSIDE COMPANIES TO USE THEIR MANUFACTURING SERVICES!
Think about what is being said there, as we then go to a Reuters article titled “Intel latest to get US funds for chips, more grants and loans planned” on March 20, 2024, to9 wit:
WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) – Intel Corp on Wednesday was the latest semiconductor company to be awarded billions of dollars in grants and loans from the U.S. government in President Joe Biden’s effort to supercharge domestic chip output.
end quotes
JOE BIDEN’S EFFORT TO SUPERCHARGE DOMESTIC CHIP OUTPUT WHICH JOE KNOWS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!
Yes, people, good old Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING at its finest!
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Re: Just musings, is all
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 4, 2024 AT 9:17 PM
Paul Plante says:
And getting back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, Jemmy continues as follows, to wit:
The second expedient (force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
end quotes
However, while on Friday, November 23, 1787, protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate might have been the first object of interest of government in Jemmy Madison’s mind and times, today, in April of 2024, under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his WOKENESS, protecting those faculties is no longer an object of government under Joe, at all, which takes us back to Jemmy for more of what Joe Biden sees radically wrong with America today, to wit:
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
end quote
And it is that which Joe Biden ends to stamp out with his DEI programs, where “equity” under Joe means complete equality in every way enforced by the federal government under Joe, which takes us back to Federalist No., 10, to wit:
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
end quote
And as we head into November 2024 and the presidential contest of the century, if not millennium, that is exactly where we find ourselves as a nation, with our attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power having divided us into parties inflamed with mutual animosity, and rendered much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for our common good, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
end quotes
And there, of course, is where Joe Biden’s equity policy comes into the picture as we shall see, but let’s go back to Federalist No. 10 to see where Jemmy is trying to take us, to wit:
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
end quotes
And it is those different sentiments and views that Joe Biden seeks to crush to render us all perfectly equal in every way, which again takes us back to Jemmy. to wit:
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
end quotes
And people, never has that been more true than it is today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
end quotes
And that gets us to where we need to be to continue on when we return from a break for station identification with the Telegraph article “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we will be told by the Brits, who don’t have to fear political retaliation by Joe, and so, don’t have to suck up to and grovel before Joe like the mainstream and legacy media in this country do, as follows, so stay tuned:
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.
Lieberman was an older type of Democrat, someone who embraced the party’s defense of the working and middle classes, while also rallying to the cause of American patriotism.
The Democratic Party under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is none of these things.
Its base is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street.
In terms of the world, it is largely either isolationist or timid in the face of terrorist threats, and in the case of Hamas even seems ready to embrace them.
Starting in the 60s and 70s, largely due to the Vietnam War, the party adopted an agenda largely congruent with that of the European Left – obsessed with climate, gender, and race issues and deeply hostile to basic notions underpinning American civilisation.
These are positions that centrists like Lieberman nor his closest allies in the Clinton Administration could accept.
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Paul Plante says:
And getting back to FEDERALIST No. 10, The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection, from the New York Packet on Friday, November 23, 1787 by Jemmy Madison to the People of the State of New York, where we were told by Jemmy that in his estimation, there are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects, with the two methods of removing the causes of faction with the one being to destroy the liberty which is essential to its existence, which is what we are seeing this autocrat Biden trying to do with all of his “WOKENESS” and EXECUTIVE ORDERS, while the other, also being employed by Joe Biden, is to give, or in this case, force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist, Jemmy continues as follows, to wit:
The second expedient (force each and every one of us to have the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests, all dictated to us by the dictatorial Biden regime in the IMPERIAL CITY of Washington, D.C., from which city Joe Biden rules the world with an iron fist is as impracticable as the first would be unwise.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
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However, while on Friday, November 23, 1787, protecting the diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate might have been the first object of interest of government in Jemmy Madison’s mind and times, today, in April of 2024, under Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior and his WOKENESS, protecting those faculties is no longer an object of government under Joe, at all, which takes us back to Jemmy for more of what Joe Biden sees radically wrong with America today, to wit:
From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.
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And it is that which Joe Biden ends to stamp out with his DEI programs, where “equity” under Joe means complete equality in every way enforced by the federal government under Joe, which takes us back to Federalist No., 10, to wit:
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.
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And as we head into November 2024 and the presidential contest of the century, if not millennium, that is exactly where we find ourselves as a nation, with our attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power having divided us into parties inflamed with mutual animosity, and rendered much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for our common good, which again takes us back to Jemmy, to wit:
So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.
But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
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And there, of course, is where Joe Biden’s equity policy comes into the picture as we shall see, but let’s go back to Federalist No. 10 to see where Jemmy is trying to take us, to wit:
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination.
A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views.
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And it is those different sentiments and views that Joe Biden seeks to crush to render us all perfectly equal in every way, which again takes us back to Jemmy. to wit:
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
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And people, never has that been more true than it is today, which again takes us back for more, to wit:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
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And that gets us to where we need to be to continue on when we return from a break for station identification with the Telegraph article “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we will be told by the Brits, who don’t have to fear political retaliation by Joe, and so, don’t have to suck up to and grovel before Joe like the mainstream and legacy media in this country do, as follows, so stay tuned:
The passing this last week of Joe Lieberman, a long-time Connecticut Senator and former vice-presidential candidate, stands as reminder of how far the Democrats have moved from the kind of centrist politics that he so epitomised.
Lieberman was an older type of Democrat, someone who embraced the party’s defense of the working and middle classes, while also rallying to the cause of American patriotism.
The Democratic Party under the unsure and ever-wavering hand of President Joe Biden is none of these things.
Its base is increasingly found in the highly educated white middle and upper classes, the tech oligarchs and Wall Street.
In terms of the world, it is largely either isolationist or timid in the face of terrorist threats, and in the case of Hamas even seems ready to embrace them.
Starting in the 60s and 70s, largely due to the Vietnam War, the party adopted an agenda largely congruent with that of the European Left – obsessed with climate, gender, and race issues and deeply hostile to basic notions underpinning American civilisation.
These are positions that centrists like Lieberman nor his closest allies in the Clinton Administration could accept.
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Paul Plante says:
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Think about those words, people, which were stated by Jemmy Madison two hundred thirty-seven (237) years ago now on Friday, November 23, 1787, and what you are in fact reading about there is the Joe Biden administration, which administration is a TRUE BELIEVER that if only it can reduce mankind in America, which happens to be all of us in here today, to a perfect equality in our political rights, we would then, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in our possessions, our opinions, and our passions.
But then ask yourself this question: where and when in the history of mankind has a perfect equality in people’s political rights that would cause people to be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions ever freely existed without coercion by the “state?”
Consider, for example, Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 20 December 1679), who was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory drawing mostly on his Epicurean political philosophy, whereby the rule of a strong authority, the sovereign, disciplines the wills of subjects in order to properly balance their passions, to the extent that a distinct domain of peace and security is created and maintained, a domain he mostly calls simply ‘society’.
That Hobbesian rule by the strong authority is what coercion (the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do) is all about, and in America today, pursuant to the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM, it is Joe Biden himself who is that strong authority, the sovereign, here in America, who is there to discipline the wills of we, the American people, who are his subjects in order to properly balance our passions.
But let’s go to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, where we have as follows when that policy or approach is attempted here in America where we are and know we are, a free people, to wit:
Yellen and her colleagues in the United States have come face to face with structural problems of their own — in the U.S. financial system, the country’s profound social inequalities, its inadequate welfare state, and its deeply polarized politics.
For all their sense of having history on their side, what the modernizing technocrats of the Democratic Party faced, in fact, was a resurgence in conservatism.
It turned out that America’s rapid social, cultural, and economic transformation was splitting the country in half.
end quotes
Which takes us forward in time to The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we see where we have gotten to since then, thanks to Joe Biden and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who was quoted in an Associated Press article tilted “At Essence Festival, Yellen touts efforts to build ‘fairer economy,’ says much work still to do” on July 2, 2023 as saying “I strongly believe that our racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do; it’s in the best economic interests of our entire country,” as follows:
The contrast between Lieberman and his old Senate colleague, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
Lieberman stuck to his views on defense and social issues, some of which reflected his embrace of orthodox Judaism.
In contrast Biden, once regarded as a centrist, has morphed into a progressive ideologue.
He has systematically weakened our defense posture, super-charged the debt credit card, and adopted identitarian politics to an almost absurd level.
This abandonment of basic centrist principles was institutionalised under Barack Obama.
The former president, unlike Biden, could express himself with great eloquence and, with great care, shifted the party away from the centrist Clinton model to one more in line with the activist base.
By the time he left office these policies generated enough resentment among the working class to help elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years ago, many of these same people, fed up with Trump’s rhetorical ugliness and drama-inducing antics, voted for Biden, thinking of him as a reassuring centrist.
But this turned out to be something of a feint.
Rather than rule from the middle and make Trump irrelevant, he doubled down wokeism.
Instead of working class Joe, we got someone whose agenda reflected more than values of the faculty lounge and the oligarchic elite.
The reaction among voters has been predictably hostile.
end quotes
So, thanks to BIDE-O-NISM, are we going from the frying pan into the fire?
The more Joe tries to make us all “equal,” which he can only do through coercion, the more he makes people hostile, instead, which takes us back to The Telegraph, to wit:
Despite all the hype about “Bidenomics”, a term now being abandoned by his handlers, the current economy offers young people little hope of owning a house, as buying a new home costs an estimated 80 per cent more than four years ago.
Party hacks like the New York Times Paul Krugman may castigate the masses for not recognising how great things are, but perhaps it’s because Biden has produced an economy that favours government workers and Wall Street over ordinary voters.
The fact that Dollar Tree, a key retailer in working class areas, is closing 1000 tells us more about the state of modern America than the improvement in sales in high-end retailers.
end quotes
So, the more Joe Biden tries to make us all equal, the more he is dividing us, and never in the three-quarters of a century I have been on the globe, have I seen anything like this in our country.
It don’t bode well for the future, people, but too late now, because the BIDEN TRAIN has left the station, and all we can do now is to survive the consequences.
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Paul Plante says:
Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
Think about those words, people, which were stated by Jemmy Madison two hundred thirty-seven (237) years ago now on Friday, November 23, 1787, and what you are in fact reading about there is the Joe Biden administration, which administration is a TRUE BELIEVER that if only it can reduce mankind in America, which happens to be all of us in here today, to a perfect equality in our political rights, we would then, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in our possessions, our opinions, and our passions.
But then ask yourself this question: where and when in the history of mankind has a perfect equality in people’s political rights that would cause people to be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions ever freely existed without coercion by the “state?”
Consider, for example, Thomas Hobbes (5 April 1588 – 20 December 1679), who was an English philosopher best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory drawing mostly on his Epicurean political philosophy, whereby the rule of a strong authority, the sovereign, disciplines the wills of subjects in order to properly balance their passions, to the extent that a distinct domain of peace and security is created and maintained, a domain he mostly calls simply ‘society’.
That Hobbesian rule by the strong authority is what coercion (the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do) is all about, and in America today, pursuant to the tenets of BIDE-O-NISM, it is Joe Biden himself who is that strong authority, the sovereign, here in America, who is there to discipline the wills of we, the American people, who are his subjects in order to properly balance our passions.
But let’s go to a Foreign Policy magazine article titled “Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job – The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?” by Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University on April 1, 2021, where we have as follows when that policy or approach is attempted here in America where we are and know we are, a free people, to wit:
Yellen and her colleagues in the United States have come face to face with structural problems of their own — in the U.S. financial system, the country’s profound social inequalities, its inadequate welfare state, and its deeply polarized politics.
For all their sense of having history on their side, what the modernizing technocrats of the Democratic Party faced, in fact, was a resurgence in conservatism.
It turned out that America’s rapid social, cultural, and economic transformation was splitting the country in half.
end quotes
Which takes us forward in time to The Telegraph article titled “The Democratic party is now indisputably woke” by Joel Kotkin on March 31, 2024, where we see where we have gotten to since then, thanks to Joe Biden and Janet “TOODLES” Yellen, who was quoted in an Associated Press article tilted “At Essence Festival, Yellen touts efforts to build ‘fairer economy,’ says much work still to do” on July 2, 2023 as saying “I strongly believe that our racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do; it’s in the best economic interests of our entire country,” as follows:
The contrast between Lieberman and his old Senate colleague, Joe Biden, could not be greater.
Lieberman stuck to his views on defense and social issues, some of which reflected his embrace of orthodox Judaism.
In contrast Biden, once regarded as a centrist, has morphed into a progressive ideologue.
He has systematically weakened our defense posture, super-charged the debt credit card, and adopted identitarian politics to an almost absurd level.
This abandonment of basic centrist principles was institutionalised under Barack Obama.
The former president, unlike Biden, could express himself with great eloquence and, with great care, shifted the party away from the centrist Clinton model to one more in line with the activist base.
By the time he left office these policies generated enough resentment among the working class to help elect Donald Trump in 2016.
Four years ago, many of these same people, fed up with Trump’s rhetorical ugliness and drama-inducing antics, voted for Biden, thinking of him as a reassuring centrist.
But this turned out to be something of a feint.
Rather than rule from the middle and make Trump irrelevant, he doubled down wokeism.
Instead of working class Joe, we got someone whose agenda reflected more than values of the faculty lounge and the oligarchic elite.
The reaction among voters has been predictably hostile.
end quotes
So, thanks to BIDE-O-NISM, are we going from the frying pan into the fire?
The more Joe tries to make us all “equal,” which he can only do through coercion, the more he makes people hostile, instead, which takes us back to The Telegraph, to wit:
Despite all the hype about “Bidenomics”, a term now being abandoned by his handlers, the current economy offers young people little hope of owning a house, as buying a new home costs an estimated 80 per cent more than four years ago.
Party hacks like the New York Times Paul Krugman may castigate the masses for not recognising how great things are, but perhaps it’s because Biden has produced an economy that favours government workers and Wall Street over ordinary voters.
The fact that Dollar Tree, a key retailer in working class areas, is closing 1000 tells us more about the state of modern America than the improvement in sales in high-end retailers.
end quotes
So, the more Joe Biden tries to make us all equal, the more he is dividing us, and never in the three-quarters of a century I have been on the globe, have I seen anything like this in our country.
It don’t bode well for the future, people, but too late now, because the BIDEN TRAIN has left the station, and all we can do now is to survive the consequences.
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THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR APRIL 9, 2024 AT 8:42 PM
Paul Plante says:
When I was young, some years back now in a different century and millennium than the one I am stuck in today in this trying time of DEMOCRAT autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, himself the descendent of Irish royalty from back in the time of Brian Boru and a long line of Delaware Bay watermen after that, before Joe was a hardhat union coal miner in Scranton, where Joe was dirt poor before he got into politics and became filthy rich, and this is in the fifth grade, there was a series of books on the lives of the presidents from Washington up to Truman, and I sat down and read them all, but I have to say that when I got to Harding and especially Coolidge, it was a real slog to keep turning pages because I found absolutely nothing in the least inspirational in the life stories of either of them, which had my young mind wondering how on earth it is that people like these become the president of this country when there is nothing in their life story that would seem to recommend them for the position.
So when I read the political essays of H.L. Mencken who was covering the political campaigns of both of them, Harding first, and then Coolidge, who became president when Harding decided to drop dead instead of running again, what I am reading is contemporary American political history as seen through his eyes, just as I today write about contemporary American history today as seen through my eyes, since it is quite impossible that I should be able to see clearly through any other, just as Mencken saw life through his own eyes and reported it as he saw it, which takes us back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have some of what I will call “comparative politics” between his time and ours, and more importantly, a basis of comparison of Joe Biden with both Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
One of the chief arguments made for Dr. Coolidge is that the majority of businessmen are for him.
If this were true, then it would be fair to conclude, not only that businessmen can put their private profits above the public good — which they probably do in fact, precisely like the rest of us — but also that they are singularly lacking in sense and prudence.
For if anything is plain today, it must be that another Coolidge administration, if it is inflicted upon us, will end inevitably in scandal and disaster.
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Knowing history as it happened thereafter, which was the stock market crash, the GREAT DEPRESSION. WWII as a result of the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and on through Korea and Viet Nam up to our times today, when I read those words of Mencken’s from October 6, 1924 about scandal and disaster, my mind flashed forward to today and where it is that Joe Biden, and his crowd are taking the nation as they keep running up the debt like there is no tomarrow, which crowd includes Janet “TOODLES” Yellen who has been in China lecturing the Chinese on how to run their country when it is crystal clear to the Chinese, who are keeping this country functioning by buying up the debt “TOODLES” has to issue to pay for Joe Biden’s fiscal profligacy, that neither Joe nor “TOODLES” have a clue when it comes to running this country, as opposed to running it into the ground, which takes us back to 1924 and Cal Coolidge as seen through the eyes of H.L. Mencken, to wit:
The day good Cal is elected every thieving scoundrel in the Republican party will burst into hosannas, and the day he is inaugurated there will be song and praise services wherever injunctions are tight and profits run to 50 per cent.
Then will follow, for a year or two, a reign of mirth in Washington, wilder and merrier, even, than that of Harding’s time.
And then there will come an explosion.
How all this will benefit legitimate business I can’t make out.
The only businessmen who will gain anything by it will be the one who manages to steal enough while the going is good to last him all the rest of his life.
All the others will get burnt in the explosion, as they always do when political dynamite is set off.
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And five years later, in 1929, that political dynamite did explode, and down came Wall Street in flames, which has me wondering, as I follow the economic news each day, about the explosion that is waiting in the wings as a result of the fiscal profligacy and irresponsibility of the Joe Biden regime and its Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING, which according to the Reuters article titled “TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production” by David Shepardson and Stephanie Kelly on April 8, 2024, just handed TSMC, a Taiwanese company, a fistful of American taxpayer coin, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s U.S. unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.
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In that same article, it was stated as follows:
Commerce expects the projects will create 6,000 direct manufacturing jobs and 20,000 construction jobs.
end quote
Oh, really?
Then where are all these jobs?
I go through the job reports each month, and I fail to see where all that money is going, except into corporate coffers, where it seems to get swallowed up, as we see by going to the Reuters article titled “Strong US labor market underpins economy in first quarter” by Lucia Mutikani on April 5, 2024, where we have the latest job figures from Joe’s own government, to wit:
The healthcare sector led the broad increase in employment, adding 72,000 jobs that were spread across ambulatory services, hospitals as well as nursing and residential care facilities.
Government payrolls increased by 71,000 jobs, boosted by local and federal government hiring.
The construction sector added 39,000 jobs, about double the average monthly gain of 19,000 over the last 12 months.
Leisure and hospitality payrolls rose 49,000, returning employment to its pre-pandemic level.
There were also increases in employment in the social assistance, retail and wholesale trade sectors.
Financial activities reported modest gains in payrolls as did mining and logging, transportation and warehousing.
Professional and business services employment rose slightly, with temporary help – seen a as harbinger for future hiring – posting a small decline.
But manufacturing added no jobs last month as did the information sector.
Utilities shed 400 jobs.
Wages increased 4.1% on a year-on-year basis, the smallest gain since June 2021, after advancing 4.3% in February.
end quotes
And that subsidy (a sum of money granted by the government to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive) to TSMC is on top of $8.5 billion in grants and up to $11 billion in loans for Intel to subsidize leading-edge chip production from the same program, while Joe is expected to unveil an award for South Korea’s Samsung Electronics as soon as next week, sources said.
But this is as much about character of presidential candidates in America as it is policy, which takes us back to Mencken in 1924, to wit:
Do they quake today before the menace of La Follette?
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There he is talking about Robert Marion “Fighting Bob” La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) who was an American lawyer and politician that represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906, and then ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election that Mencken is writing about above.
As Wikipedia tells us, with the Republican and Democratic Parties each nominating conservative candidates in the 1924 presidential election, left-wing groups coalesced behind La Follette’s third-party candidacy, and with the support of the Socialist Party, farmer’s groups, labor unions, and others, La Follette briefly appeared to be a serious threat to unseat Republican President Calvin Coolidge.
La Follette won 16.6% of the popular vote, one of the best third party performances in U.S. history, which takes us back to Mencken, to wit:
If so, let them consider how La Follette came to be so formidable.
Three years ago he was apparently as dead as Gog and Magog.
The Farmer Labor party snored beside him in the political morgue; Socialism was already in the dissecting room.
Then came, in quick succession, the oil scandal, the Veterans’ Bureau scandal and the intolerable stench of Dougherty.
In six months La Follettism was on its legs again, and now it is so strong that only a miracle can keep the election out of the House.
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And let’s pause here for station identification before going back to 1924, to see if we can learn anything at all about where we are today with Joe Biden in the white house, but stay tuned and don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back with more.
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Paul Plante says:
When I was young, some years back now in a different century and millennium than the one I am stuck in today in this trying time of DEMOCRAT autocrat Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, himself the descendent of Irish royalty from back in the time of Brian Boru and a long line of Delaware Bay watermen after that, before Joe was a hardhat union coal miner in Scranton, where Joe was dirt poor before he got into politics and became filthy rich, and this is in the fifth grade, there was a series of books on the lives of the presidents from Washington up to Truman, and I sat down and read them all, but I have to say that when I got to Harding and especially Coolidge, it was a real slog to keep turning pages because I found absolutely nothing in the least inspirational in the life stories of either of them, which had my young mind wondering how on earth it is that people like these become the president of this country when there is nothing in their life story that would seem to recommend them for the position.
So when I read the political essays of H.L. Mencken who was covering the political campaigns of both of them, Harding first, and then Coolidge, who became president when Harding decided to drop dead instead of running again, what I am reading is contemporary American political history as seen through his eyes, just as I today write about contemporary American history today as seen through my eyes, since it is quite impossible that I should be able to see clearly through any other, just as Mencken saw life through his own eyes and reported it as he saw it, which takes us back to the Baltimore Evening Sun on October 6, 1924 and “The Coolidge Buncombe” by H.L. Mencken, where we have some of what I will call “comparative politics” between his time and ours, and more importantly, a basis of comparison of Joe Biden with both Harding, who before Joe Biden took the crown from him was deemed the worst American president, and Calvin Coolidge, or “Silent Cal,” as he was known, to wit:
One of the chief arguments made for Dr. Coolidge is that the majority of businessmen are for him.
If this were true, then it would be fair to conclude, not only that businessmen can put their private profits above the public good — which they probably do in fact, precisely like the rest of us — but also that they are singularly lacking in sense and prudence.
For if anything is plain today, it must be that another Coolidge administration, if it is inflicted upon us, will end inevitably in scandal and disaster.
end quotes
Knowing history as it happened thereafter, which was the stock market crash, the GREAT DEPRESSION. WWII as a result of the collapse of the Weimar Republic, and on through Korea and Viet Nam up to our times today, when I read those words of Mencken’s from October 6, 1924 about scandal and disaster, my mind flashed forward to today and where it is that Joe Biden, and his crowd are taking the nation as they keep running up the debt like there is no tomarrow, which crowd includes Janet “TOODLES” Yellen who has been in China lecturing the Chinese on how to run their country when it is crystal clear to the Chinese, who are keeping this country functioning by buying up the debt “TOODLES” has to issue to pay for Joe Biden’s fiscal profligacy, that neither Joe nor “TOODLES” have a clue when it comes to running this country, as opposed to running it into the ground, which takes us back to 1924 and Cal Coolidge as seen through the eyes of H.L. Mencken, to wit:
The day good Cal is elected every thieving scoundrel in the Republican party will burst into hosannas, and the day he is inaugurated there will be song and praise services wherever injunctions are tight and profits run to 50 per cent.
Then will follow, for a year or two, a reign of mirth in Washington, wilder and merrier, even, than that of Harding’s time.
And then there will come an explosion.
How all this will benefit legitimate business I can’t make out.
The only businessmen who will gain anything by it will be the one who manages to steal enough while the going is good to last him all the rest of his life.
All the others will get burnt in the explosion, as they always do when political dynamite is set off.
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And five years later, in 1929, that political dynamite did explode, and down came Wall Street in flames, which has me wondering, as I follow the economic news each day, about the explosion that is waiting in the wings as a result of the fiscal profligacy and irresponsibility of the Joe Biden regime and its Stalinistic CENTRAL PLANNING, which according to the Reuters article titled “TSMC wins $6.6 bln US subsidy for Arizona chip production” by David Shepardson and Stephanie Kelly on April 8, 2024, just handed TSMC, a Taiwanese company, a fistful of American taxpayer coin, to wit:
WASHINGTON, April 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it would award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s U.S. unit a $6.6 billion subsidy for advanced semiconductor production in Phoenix, Arizona and up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.
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In that same article, it was stated as follows:
Commerce expects the projects will create 6,000 direct manufacturing jobs and 20,000 construction jobs.
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Oh, really?
Then where are all these jobs?
I go through the job reports each month, and I fail to see where all that money is going, except into corporate coffers, where it seems to get swallowed up, as we see by going to the Reuters article titled “Strong US labor market underpins economy in first quarter” by Lucia Mutikani on April 5, 2024, where we have the latest job figures from Joe’s own government, to wit:
The healthcare sector led the broad increase in employment, adding 72,000 jobs that were spread across ambulatory services, hospitals as well as nursing and residential care facilities.
Government payrolls increased by 71,000 jobs, boosted by local and federal government hiring.
The construction sector added 39,000 jobs, about double the average monthly gain of 19,000 over the last 12 months.
Leisure and hospitality payrolls rose 49,000, returning employment to its pre-pandemic level.
There were also increases in employment in the social assistance, retail and wholesale trade sectors.
Financial activities reported modest gains in payrolls as did mining and logging, transportation and warehousing.
Professional and business services employment rose slightly, with temporary help – seen a as harbinger for future hiring – posting a small decline.
But manufacturing added no jobs last month as did the information sector.
Utilities shed 400 jobs.
Wages increased 4.1% on a year-on-year basis, the smallest gain since June 2021, after advancing 4.3% in February.
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And that subsidy (a sum of money granted by the government to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive) to TSMC is on top of $8.5 billion in grants and up to $11 billion in loans for Intel to subsidize leading-edge chip production from the same program, while Joe is expected to unveil an award for South Korea’s Samsung Electronics as soon as next week, sources said.
But this is as much about character of presidential candidates in America as it is policy, which takes us back to Mencken in 1924, to wit:
Do they quake today before the menace of La Follette?
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There he is talking about Robert Marion “Fighting Bob” La Follette Sr. (June 14, 1855 – June 18, 1925) who was an American lawyer and politician that represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the governor of Wisconsin from 1901 to 1906, and then ran for president of the United States as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in the 1924 presidential election that Mencken is writing about above.
As Wikipedia tells us, with the Republican and Democratic Parties each nominating conservative candidates in the 1924 presidential election, left-wing groups coalesced behind La Follette’s third-party candidacy, and with the support of the Socialist Party, farmer’s groups, labor unions, and others, La Follette briefly appeared to be a serious threat to unseat Republican President Calvin Coolidge.
La Follette won 16.6% of the popular vote, one of the best third party performances in U.S. history, which takes us back to Mencken, to wit:
If so, let them consider how La Follette came to be so formidable.
Three years ago he was apparently as dead as Gog and Magog.
The Farmer Labor party snored beside him in the political morgue; Socialism was already in the dissecting room.
Then came, in quick succession, the oil scandal, the Veterans’ Bureau scandal and the intolerable stench of Dougherty.
In six months La Follettism was on its legs again, and now it is so strong that only a miracle can keep the election out of the House.
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And let’s pause here for station identification before going back to 1924, to see if we can learn anything at all about where we are today with Joe Biden in the white house, but stay tuned and don’t touch that dial, because we will be right back with more.
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